Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I don't know what you mean about Rayner being 'one of only 18 Labour MPs to support Jezza.....'? In the Chicken Coup there was a 'no confidence' vote of members of the Parliamentary Labour Party. 172 MPs supported the 'no confidence' resolution. Corbyn got 40 votes. Was Rayner one of them? As the sitting leader of the party he didn't need MP nominations to stand (to challenge him) and was automatically on the ballot - up against Owen Smith - and won easily when the membership had a say.

Is 'the name' I mentioned Trevor Chinn? As I said he is closely linked to a lot of senior Labour MPs including Starmer, Cooper and half the Cabinet. Are you saying he has a particularly close relationship to Alex Barros-Curtis (ABC) - the parachuted in Cardiff West MP? ABC was heavily involved in the Starmer moves to expel and expunge Corbynites from Labour after Starmer won the leadership election and stoke the anti Semitism slurs. His reward was Cardiff West.

I agree that a lot of the people around and behind Starmer will be happy to see Rayner gone. They tried before and cocked it up. She has now done it to herself. But in my opinion she has more in common politically with Starmer than Corbyn - despite her flat share with Rebecca Long-Bailey and her role in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.
The term 'Corbynite' is open to interpretation and I suppose you are correct that she was never doctrinally a Corbynite.

All the same she was strongly associated with Jezza during his first couple of years as leader. Yes she is like Starmer - an unprincipled, bigheaded clever dick with a lust for power and few ideological red lines.

She was, after all, the woman who finally fell out with Corbyn over her plans to build housing on allotments, which is a terrible idea.

Thank God she has gone!